November 14, 2006

Teemu Leino joins Team Xray

Teemu Leino

Xray have just made the announcement on their site that 2005 European Champion and all round top racer Teemu Leino has left Schumacher, after racing for them for 12 years, and joined Team Xray. Teemu is a driver of considerable skill and experience and would be seen as the necessary move needed to enable the Slovakian manufacturer step up their game and take a European & World 1/10th title, which up till now has eluded them.

XRAY is very pleased to announce that the world’s top touring car driver and European Champion Teemu Leino will be joining Team XRAY. Teemu will support the factory team at all racing events and will participate in the testing and further development with the car.

Read the full announcement here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


November 14, 2006

Riley & Bradby win the Batley Indoor Regional

Batley Indoor - image oOple

oOple.com is reporting, through images, on last weekends Batley Indoor Regional which saw wins for Ben Riley in 2wd and Paul Bradby in 4wd.

105 Drivers turned up to the second in the North East regional series, held at Batley Buggy Clubs indoor venue. The track was a mix of carpet, polished floor and gym mats – a real challenge.

View all the fantastic pictures from the event on oOple.com here.


November 12, 2006

Danish Indoor Electric Touring Championship Rd2

Danish Indoor Round 2

Martin Lissau has written his report from the second round of the Danish National championships in which he finished 2nd. Martin has yet to take that top step of the podium with his new Xray T2007 having also taken 2nd place in the first round of the championship but we’re sure its only a matter of time before that happens.

The finals were not the best-driven finals in the world, but after some good battles and close racing (sometimes a bit too close) Jonas took first place. After Steen had some problems, I took the no. 2 spot and he took no. 3

Read Martin’s full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


November 9, 2006

Adam Rogers & Rob Fox win Rug Racers Rd2

Rug Racers Rd2

The second round of the Rug Racers Winter Series 2006 took place in Hertfordshire last weekend. The event saw dominate performances from Adam Rogers and Rob Fox, in modified and 19T classes respectively.

From the outset Adam Rogers was the favorite for this final, but with Kit Jones putting in a time that was less than three seconds behind Adam, would he be able to challenge Adam at all? The answer to this question was no, with Adam showing a commanding drive, bettering his qualifying time and showing why he is a national winner and a consistent top ten qualifier at that level.

You can read the full race report here.

Source: Helger Racing [helgerracing.com]


November 8, 2006

More off-road buggy videos

Rodrigo Luis

Ok so today we are bringing you 3 videos, 2 of which feature 4wd electric buggies and were taken at the 2006 Belgian GP on a wicked artificial surface track. The third one is of Rodrigo Luis driving at the Torres Vedras (screenshot above) just last weekend with a 1/8th scale buggy. In this one you can see a wall of death corner half way through the lap that looks super cool.

You can view the 2 videos from the Belgian GP here and here.
You can view the Torres Vedras video here

Source: 4wdrc [4wdrc.com] / Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]


November 8, 2006

Olly Jefferies wins Rd1 CML Carpet Masters

Olly Jefferies

Hot Bodies racer Olly Jefferies has taken FTD and the win at round 1 of the CML Carpet Masters held last weekend. Olly recently switched to Hot Bodies and had considerable success so far, taking FTD at every event raced along with winning round 1 of the Carpet Thrashnals and now this win. It is all seen as preparation for the GP Carpet World Cup, held in Geneva at the end of November, which Olly is planning on attending.

Since getting my Cyclone I have been concentrating on carpet racing in preparation for the forthcoming GP Carpet World Cup in Geneva at the end of the month, the car feels really good on carpet and easy to tune, I am also feeling more comfortable with every meeting with the new car and really looking forward to the Geneva meeting.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Hot Bodies [hbeurope.com]


November 7, 2006

PN Racing Mini-Z World Cup

Mini-Z World Cup

Pro-Z.com have a photo report from the PN Mini-Z World Cup that was held at the RC Madness track in Connecticut in the last weekend of October. There are some pretty wicked looking Mini-Z’s there and some that don’t even resemble one at all, like this all carbon version with Group C body above.

Check out the full image set here.

Source: Pro-Z [pro-z.com] Image by PN Racing


November 7, 2006

Simo Ahoniemi wins the Team Orion Cup

2006 Team Orion Cup podium

Last weekend saw the Team Orion Cup run in the town of Zillisheim in France. This annual international race was won by Finnish racer Simo Ahoniemi driving his Corally RDX prototype. Second place, and also driving Corally RDX prototype was Marc Fischer from Germany with the final place on the podium going to another German racer racer Toni Rheinard racing the Kyosho Stallion.

You can view the final results sheet here.

Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]